Earlier today we told you about the Nixonian challenge that Meg Whitman’s crew offered Team Poizner: Either release the tapes of your liiiiiiiiiiiiiberal statements made during your 2004 Assembly race or we release them Monday. Yes, hours upon hours of Assembly debate footage will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting public.

Team Poizner has responded Friday with its own incriminating footage: An April 3, 2000 video clip of Meg in the audience at a Democratic Leadership Council event featuring President Clinton (giving Meg a shout-out!), Gray Davis and God knows what other liberals. Perhaps Vladimir Lenin.

Plus, notes Team Poiz, it was at the Tech Museum in San Jose — the same location as Sunday’s GOP debate.

Well, at least we think it’s Meg in the audience. All that is seen is the back of a blonde head standing in the front row. Seriously. Hey, it’s a Republican primary, so this is what counts as horrible.

Said Team Poiz’s Jarrod Agen: “If Meg Whitman wants to talk about liberal ideologies from 2004, we demand that Meg Whitman release all of her correspondence with Barbara Boxer and her campaign when Whitman endorsed Boxer that year.”

Check it out here:

A much more compelling video is this recent interview done by Sacramento newscaster Steve Large. (Wow, what a great name!) He presses Whitman on the lack of specifics in her proposal to cut 40,000 jobs from the state budget. After a couple of run-arounds, Mr. Large says “Tell me why you can’t tell me that you can’t name a department that needs to be trimmed down.”

Large notes that Whitman’s campaign USED to give TV reporters five minutes for an interview; now they give them 10. Perhaps after seeing this report, that benevolence will be rescinded. Check it out here: